Le Corre, Lionel

Healing male homosexuality? - 2018.


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At the end of 1909, Freud suggested that psychoanalysis could intervene to cure a certain style of male homosexuality close to obsessive neurosis. It took him ten years to definitively refute this thesis during a debate with Ferenczi. This debate proves Freud’s efforts to empower psychoanalysis, that is to say, to solve the crucial questions of the Freudian field by arguments specific to psychoanalysis.